Japan Lyricist Awards
Japan Lyricist Awards is an annual set of awards sponsored by the Japan Lyricists' Association. Awarded since 1968. Over the years the award ceremony has been produced by NHK and NTV and now, since the 27th Awards, by TV Tokyo.
Grand Prix winning songs
This is a list of songs that have won the Grand Prix. For details on awards in other categories, visit . The audience share data are from Video Research, for Kanto area.No. | Date | Song title | Lyricist | Singer | Broadcasting station | TV rating | Notes |
1 | "Itsudemo Kimi wa" | Tetsurō Hoshino | Kiyoko Suizenji | no broadcast | |||
2 | "Hana to Chō" | Kōhan Kawauchi | Shinichi Mori | no broadcast | |||
3 | "Koi Hitosuji" | Masato Fujita | Shinichi Mori | no broadcast | |||
4 | "Onna no Asa" | Sō Nishizawa | Kenichi Mikawa | no broadcast | |||
5 | "Shūchakueki" | Kazuya Senke | Chiyo Okumura | no broadcast | |||
6 | "Onna no Kaikyō" | Miyuki Ishimoto | Harumi Miyako | no broadcast | |||
7 | "Saraba Tomo yo" | Yū Aku | Shinichi Mori | no broadcast | |||
8 | "Shikuramen no Kahori" | Kei Ogura | Akira Fuse | no broadcast | |||
9 | "Kita no Yadokara" | Yū Aku | Harumi Miyako | no broadcast | |||
10 | "Katte ni Shiyagare" | Yū Aku | Kenji Sawada | no broadcast | First successive Grand Prix win | ||
11 | "Aobajō Koi Uta" | Funaichi Hoshima | Muneyuki Satō | NHK General TV | |||
12 | "Miserarete" | Yoko Aki | Judy Ongg | NHK General TV | |||
13 | "Ōsaka Shigure" | Osamu Yoshioka | Harumi Miyako | NHK General TV | |||
14 | "Moshimo Piano ga Hiketanara" | Yū Aku | Toshiyuki Nishida | NHK General TV | |||
15 | "Chigiri" | Yū Aku | Hiroshi Itsuki | NHK General TV | 23.4% | Yū Aku registers second successive win | |
16 | "Fuyu no Riviera" | Takashi Matsumoto | Shinichi Mori | NHK General TV | 20.8% | ||
17 | "Kita no Hotaru" | Yū Aku | Shinichi Mori | NHK General TV | |||
18 | "Bōkyō jon kara" | Ryūichi Satomura | Takashi Hosokawa | NHK General TV | 19.1% | ||
19 | "Yūsuge no Koi" | Daizaburō Nakayama | Shinichi Mori | NHK General TV | 19.3% | ||
20 | "Jinsei Iroiro" | Daizaburō Nakayama | Chiyoko Shimakura | NHK General TV | 20.3% | Second person to achieve a successive win | |
21 | "Minato no Goban-chō" | Yū Aku | Hiroshi Itsuki | NHK General TV | 17.2% | ||
22 | "Kaze no Bon Koi Uta" | Rei Nakanishi | Sayuri Ishikawa | NHK General TV | |||
23 | "Utakata" | Osamu Yoshioka | Sayuri Ishikawa | NTV | |||
24 | "Kita no Daichi" | Tetsurō Hoshino | Saburō Kitajima | NTV | |||
25 | "Sakaba Hitori" | Miyuki Ishimoto | Mitsuko Nakamura | NTV | |||
26 | "Murasaki Ujō" | Yasuteru Miura | Ayako Fuji | NTV | |||
27 | "Tsuki" | Koyomi Asa | Yōko Nagayama | TV Tokyo | |||
28 | "Momo to Ringo no Monogatari" | Teruhiko Kuze | Junko Miyama | TV Tokyo | |||
29 | "Chindō Monogatari" | Daizaburō Nakayama | Yoshimi Tendo | TV Tokyo | 9.7% | ||
30 | "Ningyō " | Toyohisa Araki | Kaori Kozai | TV Tokyo | 10.7% | ||
31 | "Amerika Hashi" | Yoko Yamaguchi | Yutaka Yamakawa | TV Tokyo | 10.8% | ||
32 | "Tabiji no Hana" | Mitsuo Ikeda | Hiroko Hattori | TV Tokyo | |||
33 | "Hakone Hachiri no Hanjirō" | Yurio Matsui | Kiyoshi Hikawa | TV Tokyo | First ever Grand Prix for a debut song | ||
34 | "Rinto Shite" | Taka Takashi | Fuyumi Sakamoto | TV Tokyo | 10.2% | ||
35 | "Kasannaka" | Yū Aku | Hiroshi Itsuki | TV Tokyo | 8.2% | ||
36 | "Onna no Isshō " | Osamu Yoshioka | Miyuki Kawanaka | TV Tokyo | 10.7% | ||
37 | "Kushiro Shitsugen" | Ryūtarō Kinoshita | Kaori Mizumori | TV Tokyo | 12.1% | ||
38 | "Taiki Bansei" | Tetsurō Hoshino | Aya Shimazu | TV Tokyo | 9.8% | ||
39 | "Saihoku Kōro" | Mitsuo Ikeda | Kaori Kozai | TV Tokyo | 7.4% | ||
40th | "Danjiri" | Yurio Matsui | Mitsuko Nakamura | TV Tokyo | 9.5% | ||
41 | "Umiyuki" | Yasushi Akimoto | Jero | TV Tokyo | 10.0% | Second time a debut song wins the Grand Prix | |
42 | "Tokimeki no Rumba" | Reiji Mizuki | Kiyoshi Hikawa | TV Tokyo | 5.1% | ||
43 | "Jinsei Michizure" | Reiji Mizuki | Yoshimi Tendo | TV Tokyo | 7.8% | Third person to achieve a successful Grand Prix win | |
44 | "Ikutabi no Sakura" | Michio Yamagami | Mai Fukui | TV Tokyo | 6.9% | ||
45 | "Sakura" | Rei Nakanishi | Kiyoshi Hikawa | TV Tokyo | 11.1% | ||
46 | "Hakata a la Mode" | Raymond Matsuya | Hiroshi Itsuki | TV Tokyo | 7.7% | Special TV Tokyo Award goes to Yoshio Tabata | |
47 | December 4, 2014 | "Choi to Kimagure Wataridori" | Toshiya Nishitani | Kiyoshi Hikawa | TV Tokyo | 6.3% | |
48 | December 3, 2015 | "Koma" | Kyōsuke Kuni | Aya Shimazu | TV Tokyo | 8.1% | |
49 | December 1, 2016 | "Utsusemi no Ie" | Mami Takubo | Takao Horiuchi | TV Tokyo | 4.5% | |
50 | December 3, 2017 | "Hijikawa Arashi" | Makoto Kitajō | Natsuko Godai | TV Tokyo | 5.7% | |
51 | December 8, 2018 | "Tenryū Nagashi" | Takashi Manjō | Kōhei Fukuda | BS TV Tokyo |